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Cheryl A. Falvey

Cheryl A. Falvey is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office. She provides litigation and counseling services, with a focus on consumer protection matters, including product safety, privacy, sweepstakes, promotions, and advertising. Cheryl concentrates on the defense of consumer class action, toxic tort, mass tort, and other tort claims arising out of consumer, occupational, and environmental exposures, as well as trade secret, intellectual property, and other technology litigation, representing clients in the food and beverage, consumer product, technology, energy and chemical industry sectors. Cheryl helps clients protect their brand and reputation, avoid liability in the marketing of their products, build safety into their products with science-based risk assessment, and successfully navigate product safety challenges with rapid response. Prior to joining Crowell & Moring, Cheryl served as the general counsel of the CPSC.

By Cheryl A. Falvey, Natalia R. Medley and Scott L. Winkelman on December 6, 2013 Posted in Advertising & Product Risk ManagementOn November 13, 2013, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted 3-1 to publish notice of a proposed interpretive rule that would establish standards for voluntary product recalls, revising 16 CFR part 1115. As approved, the proposed rule, which originally focused on the form and content of recall notice, incorporates several substantive amendments introduced… Continue Reading

By Cheryl A. Falvey and Natalia R. Medley on August 7, 2013 Posted in Advertising & Product Risk ManagementProducts designed and manufactured for use by infants, toddlers and children must comply with legal requirements at both the federal and state level in order to be sold in the United States. Manufacturers can successfully enter the U.S. children’s product market if they identify what regulations apply to their products, what testing and certification and… Continue Reading

By Cheryl A. Falvey on May 21, 2013 Posted in Advertising & Product Risk ManagementRetailers face new challenges in certification of their products to CPSC regulations. Among other things, the new proposed CPSC rule would place the certification burden on private labelers and require that importers of regulated finished products manufactured outside of the United States file the required certificate electronically with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at… Continue Reading‹ Newer Posts

Crowell & Moring’s Regulatory Forecast 2018

Crowell & Moring's Regulatory Forecast explores how technology is driving the future of business across industries – and how Washington, as well as state and global regulators, is forging the appropriate balance between fostering innovation and protecting consumers.

About Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer

Crowell & Moring is a full-service, international law firm that represents a broad spectrum of clients in the retail and consumer product industries, including wholesale and specialty retailers, department stores, and big-box retailers, apparel, cosmetics, food and beverage, consumer electronics and other consumer products companies, as well as investors in these sectors. Our clients call upon us, time and again, to help them navigate the complex legal and regulatory regimes, both domestically and internationally, applicable to the design and promotion of products and services, and to assist them in taking innovative and proactive measures to protect their business from the array of challenges before them. Our Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer blog features legal insight and thought-leadership affecting the industry.